Meteor HTTP.call gzip answer

Question

I made a request to a server expecting to get a Json as an answer, but the answer was a compressed gzip and I don't know how to inflate this.

Does someone know a library or a native function to help me with this?

I tried zlib but that needs a stream and my request return a string.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 02:33

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In fact with the HTTP package of meteor I just have to make :

requestOption.npmRequestOptions.gzip = true

and the answer is uncompress by the library

answered Nov 13 '15 at 02:33

Z. Clément

It's a bit weird that it doesn't do this by default since the returned header states that it's content-encoding is gzip. Either way, this works. – Casey Gibson May 03 '20 at 00:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 09:33

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You can probably ask the server to respond with JSON by adding the HTTP request header {'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}

HTTP.call('GET', url, {headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}}, asyncCallback)

answered Nov 11 '15 at 09:33

JeremyK

If i dot that, the server answer {failed : true} – Z. Clément Nov 12 '15 at 07:16

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